Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "United Kingdom"
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Cost efficiency in UK and Irish credit institutions
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2005)This paper presents aggregated cost efficiency scores for a balanced panel of British and Irish credit institutions and relates these scores to loan loss reserves as a first step in investigating their usefulness as possible ... -
Equity and the UK National Health Service: a review of the evidence
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the distribution of health care and finance in the UK. This paper reviews the accumulating evidence. It discusses the empirical measures of equity used in the various ... -
Household consumption patterns, indirect tax structures and implications for indirect tax harmonisation: a three country perspective
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)The paper compares the indirect tax structures and consumption patterns of three European countries (the UK, Greece and Hungary) and studies the likely distributional impact of a potential convergence of their indirect ... -
Human capital and economic growth - United Kingdom, 1951-1961
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)In recent years, economists have been turning their exploratory energies in increasing measure towards investment in human-beings, such as formal education, post-school training, health, migration and information. Of these, ... -
Interdependencies among the Irish, British and German stock markets
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Interdependencies between the Irish stock market and two other stock markets, namely the United Kingdom and Germany, are assessed. The indices used are the ISEQ, the FTSE-100, and the FAZ. The application of cointegration ... -
Real wage convergence in an open labour market
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)This paper looks at how the Irish experience of integration has affected the labour market, bringing about convergence in labour costs between Ireland and the UK. A model of this process is developed and estimated which ... -
Schooling and earnings in the UK ? Evidence from the ROSLA experiment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)Recent work by Angrist and Krueger (1991,1992) utilised an "experiment" to distinguish an individual's return to schooling where additional schooling is by choice compared to the return when extra schooling is compulsory. ... -
The industry response to macroeconomic shocks in the UK, Germany and France and the convergence debate
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)In this paper, we investigate the response of stock returns at an industry level to macroeconomic shocks for the UK, Germany and France. The betas between the stock returns and the macroeconomic factors provide a metric ...
